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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Michigan grindcore and death metal band formed in 2025, blending the speed and aggression of grind with the sonic brutality of death metal in early-stage releases.
Canton, Ohio act founded in 2017 that fuses death metal, thrash, and hardcore into a raw, crossover-influenced style drawing from the Midwest's tradition of no-frills extreme aggression.
American slam and brutal death metal project active since 2019, specializing in the subgenre's signature low-register, percussive breakdowns and grotesque sonic extremity.
Stillburned deliver death and thrash metal from Kerava in the Helsinki metropolitan area, channeling the smoldering aftermath their name describes. Active since 2015, they bring residual fire to the Finnish extreme scene.
Raleigh, North Carolina death metal band formed in 2017, delivering straightforward, riff-driven death metal in the tradition of the genre's American roots.
Stillers Tod ("Silent Death") practice black metal across Stuttgart and Konstanz, channeling the genre's dark fury from two distinct southwestern German cities. Active since 2009, they bring the quiet lethality their name describes to the Baden-Wurttemberg underground.
Traverse City, Michigan progressive and heavy metal band formed in 2019, combining intricate compositional structures with classic metal heaviness from one of the state's smaller music markets.
Stillnes deliver thrash metal from Azuqueca de Henares near Madrid, channeling aggressive velocity from the Guadalajara province. Active since 2011, they bring deliberate misspelling and genuine intensity to the central Spanish thrash scene.
Novara's Stillness craft atmospheric black metal from the Piedmontese plains since 2014. Their name's paradoxical quiet suits compositions that build immense intensity from an initial state of calm.
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